So I know I’m ill now. Well I’m struggling with accepting it but it’s the first step to recovery. Anyway as I said I wasn’t been on my medication for about 10 days and now I’m experiencing severe paranoia and hearing voices. It looks so real to me tho I’m still trying to convince myself it’s not real
How can I manage those thoughts???
Has anyone been in the similar situation? How did you handle this?
Get back on your meds. But I also recommend Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. It helped me to manage my hallucinations and gain a sense of power over them. I will always see angels and demons and bugs and shadow people. I will always hear my angel talking to me as well as occasionally demons and muffled voices of people in the next room. I’m not interested in trying to get rid of any of them. But I did need to learn how to manage them better.
When I was young, it probably would have helped me to get rid of them. If you can get on a good combo of meds and stop the hallucinations then that would be ideal. Do everything you can.
If it’s a choice of panic, fear, uncertainty and suffering, OR taking your medication, the best choice is take your medication. I hope it brings you to a more peaceful state of mind. Then, like I said, I recommend therapy (CBT) so that what the medication maybe doesn’t alleviate you can deal with to function better. I wish you the very best.
Pills are terrifying to me. I know exactly how you feel. You’re very brave to push past the fear and do the right thing.
Going into hospital is not the worst thing either though. Getting the most and best help is really important.